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I grew up in Tetouan, a medium city in the north of Morocco, where I went to I.E.E.S Nuestra Señora del Pilar High School.
After finishing my high school studies, I applied and was accepted for a scholarship to study Computer Science bachelor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en]. My final project was an open-source client-server application that allows monitoring the stability and efficiency of a development project (see projects for more details).
In September 2007, I completed my Masters degree in Information Technologies, Communication and Audiovisual Media (TICMA) at the Music Technology Group [en], a research group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en], under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Serra. My Master Thesis was titled "Semi-Automatic Annotation of Music Collections" (see research ).
In December 2011 I submitted and in February 2012 I defended my PhD thesis entitled: "Semantic Annotation of Music Collections: A Computational Approach" (see research), under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Serra and Dr. Òscar Celma; as fullfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree in Information Technologies, Communication and Audiovisual Media (TICMA) at the Music Technology Group [en], Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en].
From March 2012 until December 2014, I was a a Post-doctoral researcher at the Music Technology Group [en], Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en] (see research). And from January 2015 until January 2016, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Computational Science [en], University of Miami [en] (see research).
As of now, I'm currently a Scientist at Pandora Media Inc, working on the playlist recommendations team.
After finishing my high school studies, I applied and was accepted for a scholarship to study Computer Science bachelor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en]. My final project was an open-source client-server application that allows monitoring the stability and efficiency of a development project (see projects for more details).
In September 2007, I completed my Masters degree in Information Technologies, Communication and Audiovisual Media (TICMA) at the Music Technology Group [en], a research group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en], under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Serra. My Master Thesis was titled "Semi-Automatic Annotation of Music Collections" (see research ).
In December 2011 I submitted and in February 2012 I defended my PhD thesis entitled: "Semantic Annotation of Music Collections: A Computational Approach" (see research), under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Serra and Dr. Òscar Celma; as fullfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree in Information Technologies, Communication and Audiovisual Media (TICMA) at the Music Technology Group [en], Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en].
From March 2012 until December 2014, I was a a Post-doctoral researcher at the Music Technology Group [en], Universitat Pompeu Fabra [en] (see research). And from January 2015 until January 2016, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Computational Science [en], University of Miami [en] (see research).
As of now, I'm currently a Scientist at Pandora Media Inc, working on the playlist recommendations team.